Twenty Registered Nurses who exercised their legal right to strike against an employer have won an unfair labor practice action against seven metro hospitals.
The announcement from Administrative Law Judge William Pannier upholds an earlier judgment by the National Labor Relations Board that the healthcare employers "committed unfair labor practices affecting commerce by refusing to consider temporary employment and by refusing to temporarily employ" the nurses specifically because they were participating in a strike.The hospitals were found to have violated Sections 8(a)(3) and (1) of the National Labor Relations Act.
Pannier's ruling ordered that 19 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association who were employed by Fairview Health Systems in June 2001 during a 23-day job action are to be "made whole . . . . for any loss of earnings and other benefits suffered as a result of the discrimination against him or her." The employers are also required to pay interest on amounts owed. Specific dollar amounts are yet to be calculated.
"This is a significant victory on behalf of our nurses and for others involved in the collective bargaining process," said Phillip Finkelstein, MNA Labor Counsel. "The right to strike is meaningless if other employers are free to discriminate against striking nurses."
The ruling named Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Mercy Hospital, North Memorial Medical Center, Methodist Hospital, the HealthEast Hospitals (St. Joseph's, St. John's and Bethesda), Unity Hospital and United Hospital as engaging in unfair labor practices.
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Twenty Registered Nurses who exercised their legal right to strike against an employer have won an unfair labor practice action against seven metro hospitals.
The announcement from Administrative Law Judge William Pannier upholds an earlier judgment by the National Labor Relations Board that the healthcare employers “committed unfair labor practices affecting commerce by refusing to consider temporary employment and by refusing to temporarily employ” the nurses specifically because they were participating in a strike.The hospitals were found to have violated Sections 8(a)(3) and (1) of the National Labor Relations Act.
Pannier’s ruling ordered that 19 members of the Minnesota Nurses Association who were employed by Fairview Health Systems in June 2001 during a 23-day job action are to be “made whole . . . . for any loss of earnings and other benefits suffered as a result of the discrimination against him or her.” The employers are also required to pay interest on amounts owed. Specific dollar amounts are yet to be calculated.
“This is a significant victory on behalf of our nurses and for others involved in the collective bargaining process,” said Phillip Finkelstein, MNA Labor Counsel. “The right to strike is meaningless if other employers are free to discriminate against striking nurses.”
The ruling named Abbott Northwestern Hospital, Mercy Hospital, North Memorial Medical Center, Methodist Hospital, the HealthEast Hospitals (St. Joseph’s, St. John’s and Bethesda), Unity Hospital and United Hospital as engaging in unfair labor practices.
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For more information
Visit the Minnesota Nurses Association website, www.mnnurses.org